Melanie Crownover sent in details about a birthday party for her 6-year-old that featured a theme after my own heart: Lego!
She writes:

Ah yes, Legos! Kids love ‘em! I know mine play with them for hours on end, so it was a no-brainer to plan a Lego Builders Birthday Party for my soon-to-be 6-year-old. I figured a two-hour Lego party would fly by, and it certainly did! My goal was to keep the party simple and fun.
Being a busy Mom of two boys, time was not on my side when planning this party (which is nothing new, really), so I had to find efficiencies wherever possible. For example, I spent more time in front of the TV hot-gluing Legos onto wooden frames (because…well…mostly because I like watching TV), but saved time in the kitchen with my No-Bake Lego Cake idea. I melted chocolate in the microwave, rather than running to Target to buy a double-boiler for the Lego Chocolates.
I saved time by ordering the cute little Lego Man Soaps off of Etsy so I could spend more time designing the Lego-themed packaging for them with dry-witted humor that went over the heads of my target audience. But I digress.
Hands-down favorites for the kids were the “Lego Freeze Chambers” with the “Lego Chocolates” running a close second. My personal favorite was the “Lego Frames” because it was fun to make and it’s a party favor that parents might actually keep! Bottom-line, a Lego party is a guaranteed home-run.

The party-goers all looked to be having a great time (and enjoying the snacks), and I think the Lego brick piñata is brilliantly executedt! My 8-year-old will be all over this theme, and I bet my 15-year-old will secretly love helping out on all the details!
Melanie has organized all her clever Lego Builder Party details in the following helpful chunks:

To make your birthday party memorable, you need great planning, great favors, great food and ghoulish ambiance. To make your Circus Birthday Party more memorable and full with fun, you need to follow some tips. Photocopy a circus clown face, write birthday party details and glue it to the other side of the plate. Set up a circus tent. Decorate the table with toy clowns, stuffed animals and other circus accessories. Wear circus clown accessories. Bake clown cupcakes, make clown clones etc. If you follow these ideas I am sure your birthday party would be one, you’ll remember forever.

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A fired employee of Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, returned towards the school Tuesday, shot and killed the headmistress after which killed himself, authorities stated.
The gunman, who was terminated earlier inside the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went for the office of Headmistress Dale Regan, Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt using the Jackonsville Sheriff’s Workplace told reporters.”He shot and killed Ms. Regan and after that he killed himself,” he stated.The sheriff’s workplace later identified the suspected gunman as 28-year-old Shane Schumerth.No students had been believed to become involved in the incident.”Our prayers go out towards the Episcopal community,” Senterfitt stated, noting that he knew Regan personally and that his daughter had not too long ago graduated from the exact same private school. “It’s a difficult day for us.”Regan had worked at Episcopal High School for 34 years, based on Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John’s Cathedral in Jacksonville.”We have full confidence that Dale Regan is already with God and in heaven,” she stated. “We ask you to please pray for us as a community.”

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The top rated commander of U.S. forces within the Middle East singled out Iran as the only nation actively attempting to destabilize and spark violence inside the region.
“Iran presents essentially the most significant regional threat to stability and security,” Gen.
James Mattis, head of the U.S. Central Command, mentioned at a Senate Armed Solutions Committee hearing Tuesday. “Its reckless behavior and bellicose rhetoric have designed a high possible for miscalculation.” Read also: U.S and other people offer you to restart nuclear talks with Iran Listing Iranian weapon capabilities such as ballistic missiles, long-range rockets, mines, modest boats, cruise missiles and submarines, Mattis said future threats inside the region “are increasingly maritime” and named on Congress to defend the spending budget to let for appropriate equipping of his forces.
“I anticipate that we are going to need to have much more maritime missile defense, anti-fast attack craft capabilities, amphibious ships and mine-countermeasure capability, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets,” Mattis mentioned in written testimony.
Mattis also detailed how Iran was helping Syria, a connection CNN’s Barbara Starr reported about on Monday.
The general also warned of Syria’s weapons stash, saying the country’s regime features a substantial level of chemical and biological weapons, a substantial integrated air defense program, and thousands of shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles.